Many Muslim inmates had also relied on the kosher meals because the state doesn't offer halal food to prisoners. When corrections officials ended the kosher meals in 2007, they cited cost and said it would be unfair to satisfy some religious preferences and not others.

They instead ended the use of pork products and encouraged those with religious diets to choose vegetarian or vegan meals.

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